The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.

                                
                                  And cheris hym choisly for chaunse vpon vrthe.
                                
                                  Thre dais, in his dole, þe dughti con lyue,
                                  Line 13960 
                                
                                  And then lefte he þe lif, & þe lond bothe.
                                
                                  In the cuntre of acaya, þer he kyng was,
                                
                                  Ys he birit in a burgh, & a bright toumbe,
                                
                                  And Telamoce his tor son takyn for kyng,
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                                  ffull sesit of þe soile, with septur in hond;
                                
                                  And Telagon, his tru brothir, tri[e]dly honourit,
                                
                                  With myche worchip & wele, in his wale court,
                                
                                  Til a ȝer was full yore, yarkit to end,
                                  Line 13968 
                                
                                  And a halfe, er þat end happit to fare,
                                
                                  He made hym knyght in his court, & couet to leng
                                
                                  All his lyf in his lond, with lordchip to haue.
                                
                                  Þen letteris had þe lede fro his lefe modur,
                                  Line 13972 
                                
                                  fforto high hym in hast, & his home laite:
                                
                                  So lefte he þe lond of his lele brothir,
                                
                                  Soght hom to Cerces with solas ynogh.
                                
                                  Miche worchip had þe whe of his wale frendis,
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                                  Gay giftys and grete, qwen he go wold.
                                
                                  At þe partyng was pité of þo pure knyghtis,
                                
                                  Miche wepyng & wail, wetyng of lere.
                                
                                  And so þe bold fro his brothir into bote ȝode:
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                                  Into Aulida afterword abli he come,
                                
                                  To his modir full myld þat hym mykill louyt. [folio 213b] 
                                
                                  Als fayne of the freike, as þe fre might,
                                
                                  Myche solast hir the sight of hir sone þan,
                                  Line 13984 
                                
                                  To se the lede vppon lyue, þat ho louet most:
                                
                                  Wende the wegh hade bene walt in the wale stremes,
                                
                                  Euyn drownet in the depe, hir dole was the more,
                                
                                  Or ellis fallyn in fight with þo felle buernes,
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                                  At the slaght of his Syre in the syde londes.
                                
                                   [A few lines awanting.]  . . . . .

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Title: The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.
Author: Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
Canvas: Page 457
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1869-1874.
Subject terms: Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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